Phonetic convergence across multiple measures and model talkers

Comparison of Phonetic Convergence in Multiple Measures

During interaction, speakers acquire characteristics more similar to characteristics of their interlocutors' speech and other behaviors; this is known as convergence. In addition to non-linguistic characteristics such as posture (Dijksterhuis and Bargh 2001) and fidgeting movements (Chartrand and Bargh 1999), this has been found in many characteristics of speech, including pitch (Babel and Bula...

Speech dominoes and phonetic convergence

Interlocutors are known to mutually adapt during conversation. Recent studies have questioned the adaptation of phonological representations and kinematics of phonetic variables such as loudness, speech rate or fundamental frequency. Results are often contradictory and the effectiveness of phonetic convergence during conversation is still an open issue. This paper describes an original experime...

Phonetic convergence in shadowed speech: a comparison of perceptual and acoustic measures

Phonetic convergence is highly variable across studies, measures, and analyses. The current paper describes a study that examined multiple acoustic measures in concert with a perceptual measure of phonetic convergence. The study employed a shadowing task in which multiple talkers shadowed words from a set of models. Across different scales of analysis, the acoustic measures were highly variable...

Generalizing time-frequency importance functions across noises, talkers, and phonemes

Listeners can reliably identify speech in noisy conditions, although it is generally not known what specific features of speech are used to do this. We utilize a recently introduced data-driven framework to identify these features. By analyzing listening-test results involving the same speech utterance mixed with many different noise instances, the framework is able to compute the importance of...

Talent in nonnative phonetic convergence